Book Title: Jainism and Modern Thought
Author(s): M M Shroff
Publisher: M M Shroff

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________________ 154 Knowing of the inner self is the secret of all success. Once you have known it you are sure to realize andreamed of powers and come in possession of unknown happiness. It is a fact that soul life relates us to the spirituality and the physical life relates us to the material universe round about us. Physical being can be termed as husk and spintual as com When the full corn in the ear 18 reached, there is no further use of husk. Hence all the physical relations will be of no use when that stage of spiritualism is reached. Life continues though the form may be changed. Life is the eternal principle and always continues though the form of the agency through which it manifests be changed. Surely, once the individual has dropped, has gone out of the physical body, it commencet again in some other form, for life is a continuous evolution, step by step and no more evolves in this process of birth, death and rebirth no sooner at reaches that last sphere of spintualism. In the modern world, the monistic ways of living and thinking have become so to say the universal fashion of the day. This monistic philosophy of life is not a 'recent inven tion, but there are many versions of it in the east as well as in' the west. This sort of philosophy is the very instinct of the animal file. It evolves in degrees with the gradual 'evolution of life and finds its -full-ledged developement

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